Anton Florian (Liechtenstein)

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Anton Florian (born May 28, 1656 at Wilfersdorf Castle ; † October 11, 1721 in Vienna ) was the fifth Prince of Liechtenstein from 1718 to 1721 and the first ruler of the Imperial Principality of Liechtenstein from 1719.

Anton Florian of Liechtenstein

biography

Anton Florian was the 14th child of Hartmann von Liechtenstein (1613–1686) and his wife Sidonie Elisabeth zu Salm-Reifferscheidt (1623–1688). In 1681 he acquired from the estate of Count Franz Eusebius von Pötting , governor of Bohemia, in the Bohemian Netherlands a . a. the manor of Rumburg .

In addition, he was prepared very early on to take on an important political function at the emperor's court. As early as 1676 he had received the office of imperial chamberlain and in 1687 that of Hungarian indigenous. Two years later he was admitted to the Privy Council and so Emperor Leopold I sent him as an extraordinary envoy and from 1691 as an ambassador to the papal court in Rome .

Due to his enormous knowledge, Anton Florian was educated Archduke Charles, who later became Emperor Charles VI, in 1693 . , entrusted and appointed to its chief steward. In 1697, after being awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece , he traveled from 1703 to 1711 with the now (counter) king Karl III. of Spain, as its chief steward and first minister, to fight for this in the War of the Spanish Succession . From 1703, Anton Florian had the title of Spanish " grandee ".

When he returned in 1718, he headed the House of Liechtenstein and assumed the title of prince. It is thanks to Prince Anton Florian that all of his princely successors were automatically enfeoffed with a seat in the Imperial Council of Dukes . In order to establish and anchor this in law, on January 23, 1719, the emperor raised the rule of Schellenberg and Vaduz to imperial immediacy and thus finally created a sovereign imperial principality of Liechtenstein.

His grave is in the crypt of the House of Liechtenstein in Vranov (Moravia).

family

Anton Florian was since October 15, 1679 with Countess Eleonore Barbara von Thun-Hohenstein (* May 4, 1661, † February 10, 1723), a daughter of Count Michael Oswald von Thun and Hohenstein , imperial chamberlain and advisor, and his wife Elisabeth Countess von Lodron , married. The couple had the following children:

  • Franz Augustin (1680–1681)
  • Eleanor (1681–1682)
  • Antonia Maria Eleonore (January 12, 1683 - December 19, 1715)
∞ Johann Adam Graf von Lamberg (* March 7, 1677; † January 16, 1708)
∞ God of honor Maximilian Graf von Kuefstein (* October 11, 1676 - December 3, 1728)
  • Karl Josef Florian (1685)
  • Anton Ignaz Josef (1689–1690)
  • Josef Johann Adam (* May 27, 1690; † December 17, 1732)
∞ Gabriele von Liechtenstein (1692–1713)
∞ Countess Maria Anna von Thun and Hohenstein (1698–1716)
∞ Countess Maria Anna von Oettingen-Spielberg (1693–1729)
∞ Countess Maria Anna von Kottulinsky (1707–1788)
  • Innocent Franz Anton (1693–1707)
  • Maria Karoline Anna (23 August 1694 - 16 April 1735)
∞ Franz Wilhelm Graf von Salm-Reifferscheidt (1670–1734)
∞ Josef Wenzel (1696–1772), Prince of Liechtenstein, later the 4th Prince
  • Maria Eleonore (1703 - July 18, 1757)
∞ Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels, Volume X, 1999
  2. ^ Evelin Oberhammer (ed.), Praise and a mirror to the whole world, The Princely House of Liechtenstein in the early modern period , Verlag für Geschichte und Politik / R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Vienna / Munich 1990, p. 218, ISBN 3-7028-0300- 9 / ISBN 3-486-55731-9
predecessor Office successor
Josef Wenzel Prince of Liechtenstein
1718–1721 		Josef Johann Adam
personal data
SURNAME Anton Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Liechtenstein
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilfersdorf Castle
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1721
Place of death Vienna